{"id":10835,"date":"2016-09-05T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2016-09-05T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:21:26","slug":"may-in-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10835","title":{"rendered":"May In Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The media have decided that today is Prime Minister May&#8217;s Big Day. The day she has to re-establish a working relationship with the Chinese leadership, shaken by the peremptory cancellation of the formal signing for Hinkley Point, even as the delegations were gathering to enjoy wine and cake in a celebration marquee. The resultant snub and departure of the Chinese party was at the very least bad manners of a kind more wounding in Chinese culture than our own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By the same token her decision to arrive at the G20 in flaming communist red\u00a0was a gesture ignored by western media, but one which will have gone some way to signal to the ultra-sensitive Chinese antennae that Mrs May, if not wanting to kiss and make up to the slobbering level of the departed Osborne, at least wants to move forward in a constructive way. We shall know soon enough whether she has that extra touch of guile which enables her to both say No when she fancies and get a Yes when she wants it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media have decided that today is Prime Minister May&#8217;s Big Day. The day she has to re-establish a working relationship with the Chinese leadership, shaken by the peremptory cancellation of the formal signing for Hinkley Point, even as the delegations were gathering to enjoy wine and cake in a celebration marquee. The resultant snub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}